WO2012178050A3 - Mechanical splicer apparatus for fiber optic cables - Google Patents

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WO2012178050A3
WO2012178050A3 PCT/US2012/043803 US2012043803W WO2012178050A3 WO 2012178050 A3 WO2012178050 A3 WO 2012178050A3 US 2012043803 W US2012043803 W US 2012043803W WO 2012178050 A3 WO2012178050 A3 WO 2012178050A3
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fiber optic
optic cables
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Kenichiro Takeuchi
Haiguang Lu
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Go!Foton Holdings. Inc.
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/25—Preparing the ends of light guides for coupling, e.g. cutting
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/38—Mechanical coupling means having fibre to fibre mating means
    • G02B6/3801—Permanent connections, i.e. wherein fibres are kept aligned by mechanical means
    • G02B6/3802—Assembly tools, e.g. crimping tool or pressing bench

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Abstract

The invention provides and apparatus for mechanically splicing fiber optic cables and method for performing the process. The apparatus comprises an inventive segmented track with a middle track segment containing a splicer mount, and first and second rotating track segments on opposed sides of a middle segment, the rotating segments moving from a cleaving orientation wherein the rotating track segments align with a respective flat edge angled cleaver and a rounded edge angled cleaver, to a splicing orientation wherein the rotating track segments align with the middle track segment. First and second fiber key holders securely holding partially stripped fiber optic cables move along the respective first and second track segment for cleaving by the cleavers and then toward the middle track segment where their cleaved tips come into controlled aligned contact within a splicer joint contained in the splicer joint mount.
PCT/US2012/043803 2011-06-24 2012-06-22 Mechanical splicer apparatus for fiber optic cables WO2012178050A2 (en)

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